Show J STORY Of PORT rORT ARTHUR I Named by English Fortified by French Won Wn i by Japan and Controlled by Russia r OR ot oC ears ear ChIno ChInor FOR r junks along aIon the Yellow see e In the tho trade had run into the landlocked Of Lu Shun Ko Kow down at the extreme end ot of the peIn FIJI AU All lenS ieng the shore great reat grU ran up straIght from the Ha ea to tofI It fI which varied from WO to f l t Jr IC you came clo enough in you C make out a slit in hi the mountains gave entrance to a body or of wa wat tl t r within Th silt lit WItS was not mere thun thlin 00 OO or JOO yards wide Once Onre you got ot h the there was wasa s sH H a wIde ot or water before you hmm d In by cliffs cUffe on every t thigh high tide the water waler Was deep enough for the tho an anchorage Horage of a bill big ship hip but butIu Iu ji the tide weilt out of oC Of oC mud were exposed to toI I lew lewIn w Tn In the valleys between n the cults cliffs were built some fifty or sixty miserable mud hilt but and in theM lived OO or Chi e coolies That was the situatiOn I up UI to 1880 In Ia what is ili now Port Arthur f Gave It His Name Tm 11 that year three or tour four ships DC 01 British navy came cume that way on a expedItion One or of these i 1 at as the gunboat Algerine corn eom r b by Lieutenant William Ar Am Arthur thur Lieutenant Arthur daringly ran 11 1 in bet between the cliffs which I guard huard the harbor which was wms there I upon named Port Arthur in honor of hl But beyond yond the naJ name Port Arthur 10 no new fame for another twenty ars tl In It was as sti still merely a harbor Into which coasting junks could run for safety when get great ft swept the sas seas outside On th cliffs and In the valleys ther there there lived only A few hundred retched Chinese cone Juit Built by Trench French FrenchT T n lh Celestini empire be bc to tG wake tp up Foreign engineers ere 1 sn coast to pick out p t iafe uS b be fortified madl made the chief for the new ld modern navy navy of ChinK China They st set on Pot Port Arthur thur and i It was planned t transform time the place into an Im 11 I strong and nd fitted staton station Plans were drawn for grut dok dock yards d workshops dr dry dock decks refitting bins basins and foundries Abe above them on the commandIng cliffs strong fortresses were to be berte rte The contracts fot for al all this w rk were let to French contractors 10 I timer It ft was France France which the nations had to do with rf of tJ th f lam east t French con coil fado aid or of swarms O oL coll working ilice aa slaves ve tl L 1 tents or 20 cents A ca on Oil IU In and about Port Arthur Not until IStl was the place tu turned nd over yer to China reAd ready for as a gt great navAl statin station By tha that time Port thuril name ta rake a already rend become a wail eU bunt built town containing more moret t than an 10 1000 houses and shop shops outside or of orth th government works I It then had a population of to say m 1 of the Chinese garrison of Cr or mr more soldiers The forts were wih with modern guns and Chi Chili U li gunner gunners were traine trained b by German nfl other foreign experts In iii time the use of oC th artUer artillery Captured by Japa Japan In IS during the moth month 0 of ooin Novem tv I r th the victorious japanese army town down one of the two narrow narro pa passes e which through the sur lun to o the ity tr of r Port Tt Arthur captured the Ule city I and put to thO thi sword InD many or of tile the Inhabitants Al as well el as the mem or of tb the garrison I It wa wa 8 a bloody d dy though the Japanese ropp the slaughter as quickly a as I 1 ole 1 r a time th then n Port Arthur was ap In the permanent possession lof f the until the pressure of oft t i h allied powers forced her t to give It to Ue the Ch e 1 n January IrOe i tore they out the Japanese a large part of the Chinese f Russia Russian Activity I iI ISM 18 Port Arthurw Arthur Ie leased to o onu nu ia who Ia Immediately tel began to for it with Ith the Intention or of making Jt It 1 lh et port i In the seas al Jl 11 lue to nu fa Is great t the other great nU Russian t It o On tho Japan sea Is l Ice bun bound a lr part of the ye year The of lf lort Arthur rhu ghe gIves the ni navy Y of GC 0 7 a pr port whicH J Is I never er frozen I It Is a pot port 11 approach to Pekin rth the Chinese J ver eer since th the Russian nuan occupancy lj 1 there been an any or of achy I In a and about Port Arhur Arthur II In m mIl mis Il Ie hovels hoe on ta swarm t I nd o of col who ho at a worth word t I n b b fo fot O cents a da day to du do duI doy I y kA kind ot of h hard an and ork L Last year Mr a contractor at Por Arthur o offered ere t to bet that thin a half bae hour he be cul could lure hire 11 oute outside of hi his regular fon force e regular tore forces are extremely extreme Ia 3 tr g f amid a are kept at work ork 1 th b land land a and sa sea An Any time within 11 I il last Me e o or Ix years en oe one cul could lind lindIn il In the out outer harbor a fet fleet of from i OO OOt t 10 1000 ChInese junks junk al 11 loaded ode with Ih Iho o U Une luber and other buld build material They or of all ilY cu course ae are al for the Rusin Russian important result 0 o the nu Russian Jn or of Pot Port Arthur hs has been a Increase in the I r 1 mn thE the States Durn During M ev evra 1 ra I 1 W weeks In I n American gos goods t to th value Iut if moe more than oO week l y were lande landed at Por Port Arthur And Andt t th hI yearly earl or of the states with that and the adjacent wih ports to has huc 0 beer rl estimated at nr nearly 10 4 I Plans For Tor Dalny Rut nut the Russian plan I has beer been from t f first to make Port Arthur R a ao and naval center With ruh thAt plan in hi view Ie the mrs ago began ga the construction QC of th fh city i of Delay tHirty lilt north and tf ten mU muss sash ot or Port C which they hope hOle t to make te the of the fur for ost east h ho plan that aU all oom corn ships shail hal be bred barred out or of Port Arthur and sent to Dalny Dainy amid aud that the fortress be bar barrett barrettt tn t where Indeed the they are 10 non iiii Ur d on Oh prop arty b be hJ I temporary 1 1 t F rather the site ot of th I s located Ote Cn on arm an open ra sled hiero te the navies nales of oC aU all ml might l t In order to make mak makile ile a safe an am Immense break breakwater wat water costing millions wa was buit built and andIs andIs Is no now completed projecting Into th fa sea for a a great distance and a splendid At Doln Dalny also great buildings were ere 1 and rare thing Iii hI I Ith th the Car Sr el t and amid corn hotel Eventually n as S planned Dainy II Is to tobe be the of the great eat S Si henna berian railroad by mens means of which I IJ has s Uel tie together her wIdely scattered empirE empire to Port Arthur within the thelast I last few en years ear have been Im IJ Premed sed b by the spirit uit f bundles boundless en energy erg ergy which prevails there Life In the City Is in gent great contrast to that In most of the settlements along the Chinese coat The streets haw been thronged with ih Russian soldiers and with gangs or of cooles coolies al all busy on some Imp impOrtant errand Cros Cross of St Gorge George GeorgeTh I Th RUSian Russian soldier as seen at Port Arthur Impresses the vIsitor as being In deadly enes earnest Before them aU all I from the lowet lowest private In the ranks I I t to the highest shInes the hope I of winning time the little cross of St George for valor alor In the faCe of the enem enemy And on the day or of St Geore George the bra brave C I mon men who wear his ross cross have the honor honorof of breaking brakin bread wih with tile the gl great lt white I cZ czar r himself In his palace at St Peter Peters Petersburg burg if the they b be stationed there or orI orIf i I If th they ar are quartered at Port Arthur they et eat br breakfast Ut at the table of the czars viceroy Admiral how can greater honor come Into the Ute life or of one of these wiry Cossacks wrapped In skins and fur furs and mount mounted ed on a little shaggy g pony even tough tougher er and bArier hardier tha tham l his master mastero 80 o strangely In the passing or of the years in time the working out or of the pl policy of th the nAtonI nations has the little Chi neF ness Junk harbor o of rort forty years ears ago name named b by the fortified by the French for the Chinese won b by the Japanese at u a grat great cost ost of blod blood and finally J leased a ed und and turned into a Pa rife rifle b by the Russians come cometo to be the c center nt r or of the worlds Inter etH estH 31 H In ChIcago Tribune |